ITEM 126-2701-R0305 Authorization
to Confer The Title of Professor Emeritus ofHistory upon Norton H.
Moses; Montana State University-Billings

WHEREAS, Professor Norton H. Moses is completing a
distinguished teaching career of almost forty years, including thirty-six years
at Montana State University, formerly Eastern Montana College, and including
three and one-half years at Amarillo College in Texas;

WHEREAS, Professor Moses has served Eastern Montana
College and Montana State University-Billings on College and University
committees too numerous to list and in many and varied volunteer capacities;

WHEREAS, Professor Moses has served his academic
department on numerous committees as either member or chair and was acting
chair of the History Department for a semester and has been the long-serving
chair of the Department Rank and Tenure Committee;

WHEREAS, Professor Moses was the faculty advisor to
the Intercollegiate Knights for four years and to the Student Senate for
thirteen years;

WHEREAS, Professor Moses has performed many community
service activities;

WHEREAS, Professor Moses has published a book on
lynching and vigilantism in the United States, and a variety of articles and
book reviews in scholarly journals, and has two additional books ready for
publication;

WHEREAS, Professor Moses has attended many scholarly
conferences and has chaired sessions, commented on papers, and presented papers
at some of them;

WHEREAS, Professor Moses has received several merit
awards from MSU-Billings and EMC, including $1,000 for ranking second highest out of one hundred seventeen
faculty members on the student evaluations of faculty the only time all faculty
members were ranked;

AND WHEREAS, Montana State University-Billings wishes
to honor Professor Norton H. Moses for his outstanding service to education and
to his discipline;

THEREFORE, the Board of Regents of Higher Education, on the recommendation of
the Chancellor of Montana State University-Billings, confers upon Dr. Norton H.
Moses the title of Professor of History Emeritus, with all the rights,
privileges, and responsibilities pertaining thereto.